5.3 sedimentary rocks


vocab


sediment: Small solid pieces of matirial that come from rocks or living things
Compaction: The prossec that presses matirials together.
Cemention: the prosses of whitch dissolved minerals crystalize and glue particles of sediment together.
Clastic rock: sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments squeezed together.
Organic rock: forms where the remains of plants and animals are diposited in thick layers.
Chemical rocks: When minerals that are dissolved crystalize

outline



*From sediment to rock

erosion

Deposit

Compaction

Cemention

*Types of cedimentary rock

*Clastic rocks

Shale

Conglamerite and breccia

*Organic rocks

coal

limestone

      • chemical rocks

***Use of sedimentary